Prototheoridae (Anglice African primitive ghost moths) sunt familia papilionum superfamiliae Hepialoideorum, in Africa australi endemica.
Diversitas et distributio
Prototheoridae tredecim species nunc notas comprehendunt, in singulo genere (Prototheora), in Africa Australi (Kristensen 1999:60; Nielsen et al. 2000), vel ad Angolam (Prototheora angolae) et Mulanje Massif Malavii endemico (Davis 2001). Vide etiam retractationes a Janse (1942) et Davis (1996) factas.
Species
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Prototheora parachlora (Meyrick, 1919) (olim in Metatheora)
- =Prototheora paraglossa; Janse, 1942
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Prototheora petrosema Meyrick, 1917
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Prototheora monoglossa Meyrick, 1924
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Prototheora corvifera (Meyrick, 1920) (olim in Metatheora)
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Prototheora merga Davis, 1996
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Prototheora quadricornis Meyrick, 1920
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Prototheora biserrata Davis, 1996
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Prototheora serruligera Meyrick, 1920
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Prototheora cooperi Janse, 1942
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Prototheora geniculata Davis, 1996
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Prototheora drackensbergae Davis, 1996
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Prototheora angolae Davis, 1996
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Prototheora malawiensis Davis, 2001
Bibliographia
- Davis, D. R. 1996. A revision of the southern African family Prototheoridae (Lepidoptera: Hepialoidea). Entomologica Scandinavica, 27: 393–439.
- Davis, D. R. 2001. A new species of Prototheora from Malawi, with additional notes on the distribution and morphology of the genus (Lepidoptera: Prototheoridae). Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington, 103(2): 452–456. Abstractum.
- Janse, A. J. T. 1942. The moths of South Africa. Volume IV, part 1. Jugatae.
- Kristensen, N. P. 1998. 1999. "The non-Glossatan Moths." In Lepidoptera, Moths and Butterflies, vol. 1, Evolution, Systematics, and Biogeography, ed. N. P. Kristensen, 41–62. Handbook of Zoology, vol. 4, pars. 35. Berolini et Novi Eboraci: Walter de Gruyter.
- Nielsen, E. S., G, S, Robinson, et D. L. Wagner. 2000. Ghost-moths of the world: a global inventory and bibliography of the Exoporia (Mnesarchaeoidea and Hepialoidea) (Lepidoptera) Journal of Natural History, 34(6): 823–878.Abstractum.
Nexus externi
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